> Yes, Amanda normally uses a different tape for each run. If you are > feeling lucky and have enough holdingdisk space, then you could just let > the backups accumulate on disk and then flush them all to one > tape the day before your full backup.
that could be a solution for me. > You are living dangerously with your current setup. Each time > you write a tape you are overwriting the only copy of your data. > If you ever have a tape error you have nothing to restore from. > And if you need a file that was deleted the day before your full > but wasn't new enough to be on your incremental then you are out > of luck. not really, in fact the datas are truncated to the previous datas, i.e. the tape continues recording where it stopped. Am I wrong ? > Amanda wasn't really designed for the all fulls on one night > incrementals every other night schedule. It can be forced to do it that > way but it takes more work to set it up like that. The idea of Amanda > is to spread the fulls and incrementals around so as to use about the > same amount of tape on each run. Can you explain me what you mean by 'spread the fulls and incrementals around' ? Thansk Frank ! -- Nicolas CARTRON